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HE treatise which is

here reprinted has long T been valued by good judges

as one of the best practical

Christian treatises which our language contains; and many religious persons have borne witness to the comfort they have found in it under se

vere trials. But it has become scarce, and is now difficult to be met with in a separate form. It is to be found among the collected works of the author of the Whole Duty of Man; an author whose writings will be treasured by the Christian reader as long as the English language is spoken, and wherever the English Church is known. But as these collected works, from their great bulk, are not accessible to the generality of readers, and they are not all of equal merit, selection has been made of one well-approved treatise, which